Submitted by adiflesher on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 9:41am.
I believe the entire list is important to how we think about
reaching.There are ways that all of
this information can inform the way we teach.Specifically, we need to teach in
an experiential manner that honors our students as individual explorers who are
in the process of constructing their own stories. But to me the most interesting part of the
story is helping people become aware of their own brain.
I believe that if we give students a sense of how their
brain works we help them become better at authoring their own story. In that
regard the three most important things on the list to me are:
The brain consists of a cognitive
unconscious and an I-function/story teller
Perception, self, and memory are
all stories, subject to revision based on new observations
The brain uses conflicts between
itself and the world, between the cognitive unconscious and the
I-functions/story teller, and between different people to learn by
generating new candidate stories
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I believe the entire list is important to how we think about reaching. There are ways that all of this information can inform the way we teach. Specifically, we need to teach in an experiential manner that honors our students as individual explorers who are in the process of constructing their own stories. But to me the most interesting part of the story is helping people become aware of their own brain.
I believe that if we give students a sense of how their brain works we help them become better at authoring their own story. In that regard the three most important things on the list to me are: